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Caroline Lester of Westside High School in Jonesboro received the honor from the Arkansas Farm Bureau. Lester earned the top new ag instructor award for her work at Westside, where she has 208 students involved. Eighty students are also members of the school’s FFA program. “Here at Westside we’re really fortunate to have a lot of community support.” Lester said when receiving the award from Arkansas Farm Bureau’s Senior Education Coordinator Matt Jackson. “I appreciate the support my peers have given me,” she said. Lester, originally from Vilonia, graduated ...

Today’s current top story salutes Southern Arkansas University graduate Caroline Lester, who graduated in May 2017 and who was just named the Arkansas Farm Bureau’s 2020 Outstanding New Ag Instructor of the Year. We received the Farm Bureau’s annual educators’ award list on Monday. We weren’t familiar with the names on the list but know from past experience that if the Farm Bureau is handing out awards, there’s probably an SAU graduate there somewhere. So, we dispatched an inquiry to Dr. Jeffry Miller, chair of the SAU Department of Agriculture. Came back the me...